Despite models predicting increased rainfall with climate change, the region has collapsed into drought – a puzzle known as the East African paradox
In the week China’s president called for development banks to support low emissions in poor countries, China Development Bank loaned $1.5bn to coal in South Africa
“I want grid power,” say locals, despite concerns that Rampal’s mega-plant may threaten the world heritage listed Sundarbans mangrove forests
Efforts in Hamburg to rally 19 countries to the Paris Agreement were successful, but deeper ambition feels further away
Big companies say they are leading the way to a cleaner future, but with only voluntary disclosures to keep them honest we just have to trust them
Finland’s government has attempted to discredit scientists who criticised its increased logging programme, writes Hanna Aho from NGO Fern
Despite May’s G20 overture to Trump, her government is preparing a divorce from the EU that will have profound negative consequences for the climate
The Paris accord isn’t only about cutting emissions, some states are already finding ways to meet climate finance commitments
How the tiny, climate-threatened Marshall Islands came to be represented at UN shipping talks by a private company based in Virginia, 11,000km away
Developing countries have been promised $100bn per year by 2020, with no sign of it arriving some are taking matters into their own hands
A cooperative of developing-world universities aim will share curricula on climate change, reducing the need for consultants from wealthy countries
Representatives of four Pacific island nations join today at the IMO in London to ask the shipping industry to do its part to cut carbon emissions
After a barrage of criticism, the UN’s primary climate fund has released $5.2m to a handful of projects
Ahead of an August general election, ride organised by Christian Aid is pushing access to renewables up the political agenda
Energy minister announces hold on Canadian-British firm’s plan to export oil from the unstable, drought-ravaged region of Turkana
Human rights review finds Australia’s coal production ambitions will contribute to dangerous climate change and asks government to reconsider
Latest draft of German plan for next week’s Hamburg meeting contains major concessions to US and opens door for coal projects to be defined as “clean”
Politicians have been accused of stoking land conflict between farmers, herders and indigenous groups to win votes, while failing to address the root cause
China is planning the world’s biggest carbon market, but with little detail given for its design, praise for the scheme is premature
India’s environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister’s industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?